HEATWAVE
You are but mere words.
Would you speak as with that mask,
With what lies underneath?
Heatwave is a short story set in the same world as Death Wore Endless Feathers. It takes place in a future California, where Dai Araiguma is playing a VR game in the middle of an abnormally tenacious heatwave.
WARNING: DO NOT PLAY IF YOU HAVE PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPSY.
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Finally, I can upload my finished film to my blog. What you see is the culimination of an entire year of work, and I’m quite proud that I could do it. I even won an award for it!
The journey I took to create this film was a long and arduous one, but one I would definitely undertake again. I think next time I will put more of an effort to create more rough cuts, as I am awful at organising. I am glad that I had Nico there to keep me on task.
Animating on paper has been some of the most natural, fun things I have done in terms of animating. It is my preferred method. I think I shall invest in a light box, and continue animating forever.
I am happy that this project is at an end, it means that I can work on my next project.
Finally, the rough cut of my film has been created. The ending is still missing, but it’ll come in time. 90% of the animation is done. Compositing has already started, and soon I will have a finished film.
I’m really looking forward to seeing it done.
With Nico helping me with colouring the frames, and Sam painting my backgrounds, I have progressed far further with my film than I could alone.
This test is to test the basic colours with the background and the water effects in a particular shot. The final film will be shot in After Effects rather than Photoshop.
Tested colouring the lineart. Lineart was scanned in, parts too light to see were darkened digitally, then the white was removed. It’s good, though I think I’ll have to work on cleaning it up more.